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Ztolkins

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Sun Feb 3, 2019, 12:22 PM Feb 2019

Parkland Dad Manuel Oliver Responds to Louis C.K. With a Brutal "Standup Set" About His Murdered Son

There’s dark humor, there’s black humor, there’s gallows humor, and then there’s this “standup set,” miles past the event horizon of some distant black hole, from Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin died in the Parkland mass shooting almost a year ago. Oliver didn’t appreciate his son’s death being comedic fodder for disgraced workplace masturbator Louis C.K., who has been trying out Parkland-related standup material lately; here’s C.K.’s joke about resenting the fame and attention the Parkland survivors got by calling for gun control after their classmates were shot to death in front of them, as told in a leaked set from December:

"You’re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didn’t get shot, you pushed some fat kid in the way, and now I gotta listen to you talking?"


After that joke—along with some really fresh material about the link between ethnicity and penis size—went over like a lead balloon, C.K. dropped it in favor of this reverse backflip in a San Jose set last month:

"If you ever need people to forget that you jerked off, what you do is you make a joke about kids that got shot."


So here’s Manuel Oliver’s response, in a promotional video for ChangeTheRef.org, a non-profit organization he and his wife founded Patricia Oliver founded in their son’s memory to fight for gun control.



[link:https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/manuel-oliver-louis-ck-joaquin-oliver-parkland-standup-change-ref.html|
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Parkland Dad Manuel Oliver Responds to Louis C.K. With a Brutal "Standup Set" About His Murdered Son (Original Post) Ztolkins Feb 2019 OP
Crying..... lark Feb 2019 #1

lark

(23,083 posts)
1. Crying.....
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 02:06 PM
Feb 2019

I really really hate the NRA and all the other fucking gun humpers who care more about their "collections" of guns than they do that AR-15's are military weapons to kill mass quantities of people and are used to massacre boat loads of children.

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